Berko

Dear Mr. Berko: My father-in-law’s portfolio has 100 shares of North State Communications, which my wife and I think he bought in 2004 or 2005. Dad had Alzheimer’s disease, lived in High Point, North Carolina, and recently passed away. We ...

Dear Mr. Berko: What’s wrong with America when the drug company and my health insurer conspired with my doctor to deny a procedure and offer an alternative medication? Why has my diesel Volkswagen been recalled? Why did my mortgage company ...

Dear Mr. Berko: I’m a 42-year-old single man. I sell commercial printing and make over $160,000 a year. I have a self-directed 401(k), and I’m disgusted with its poor performance. I’m down 6.7 percent year over year, and I just ...

Dear Mr. Berko: Please answer the following two questions for me. A co-worker believes that Congress wants to add a $10 tax on each barrel of oil used in the U.S. to pay for infrastructure improvement. How much would that ...

Dear Mr. Berko: Frontier is an internet, wireline, broadband, satellite and video communications company trading at $4.75 and yielding 8.8 percent. It just bought a big piece of Verizon’s wireline business, and I think the company, with its high dividend, ...

Dear Mr. Berko: It’s good to see your column back again in a South Florida publication. Two years ago, we bought a Subaru Outback crossover. We liked it so much that we bought a Subaru Forester as a second car ...

Dear Mr. Berko: I’m in search of a better yield with the money I’ll be getting from a $53,000 certificate of deposit that comes due next week. The following stocks were recommended by a stockbroker. I can be aggressive. Please ...

Dear Mr. Berko: My spouse and I are both 55 and have $15,000 we’d like to invest for at least 12 years. Would you recommend two stocks that we can buy, hold — reinvesting the dividends — and put away ...

Dear Mr. Berko: AT&T is my largest position. I started buying the stock at $24 in the summer of 2009. I own 6,783 shares, and my dividends are reinvested as you recommended. I’m hearing bad things about the buyout of ...